Hook for cutting corn, &amp;c.



No. 818,813, PATBNTED APR. 24, 1906. B. F. BEAN. HOOK FOR CUTTING CORN, 6w.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 14, 1905.

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BENJAMIN F. BEAN, OF GILFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

HOOK FOR CUTTING CORN, &o.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24, 1906.

Application filed July 14:, 1905. Serial No. 269,642.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. BEAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gilford, in the county of Belknap and State of v New Hampshire, have invented an Improvement in Hooks for Cutting Corn, &c., of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to that class of hooks for cutting corn and similar material in which the blade is secured to the handle by means of a clamp provided with a threaded shank which engages a fixed nut in the end of the handle, whereby the blade is clamped in place by a rotation of the handle.

The object of the invention is to provide a novel construction of blade and clamp by means of which the blade may be adjusted into different angular positions with relation to the handle and may be firmly clamped in any adjusted position.

The novel features of the invention will be more fully hereinafter described and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 shows my novel hook, the full and dotted lines showing different positions for the hook with relation to the handle. Fig. 2 is a detail showing the blade-seat in plan view and the screw-threaded shank of the clamp in cross-section, and Fig. 3 shows the bladeclamp detached.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a handle having a ferrule a at one end and provided with a long fixed nut a, the outer end of which is extended slightly beyond the inner end of the handle and is outflared (see Fig. 1) to constitute a head a that coacts with the blade-seat B, laid in the end of the handle before the long nut is forced thereon, said head connecting said blade-seat loosely with the end of the handle.

The blade-seat B has two notches b for the reception of the lower edge of the blade C, shown as provided with two curved surfaces 2 4, the surface 2 being terminated by shoulders 3, while the surface 4 has a plurality of notches or teeth 5. The curved surface 2 is always convex in shape, while the surface 4 is also shown as convexed in shape. These surfaces 2 and l are represented as located near the butt-end of the blade.

The butt-end of the blade is passed through the elongated eye (I of the blade-clamp D, having a threaded shank (F, that is engaged by the long nut a.

WVhen the butt of the blade has been located in the eye (I and the lower edge of the blade entered into the notches b of the bladeseat, the blade may be tipped about a center substantially in line with the longitudinal axis of the handle until the blade stands at the desired angle with relation to the handle, which may be any angle between the full and dotted lines, and then the handle will be rotated with one hand, while the blade is held in the other hand, and the clamp will be drawn longitudinally with relation to the handle to clamp the blade in whatever posi tion it may have been adjusted to occupy, ac cording to the work to be done or the requirement of the person who is to wield the hook.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An implement of the class described comprising a blade having at its upper end lower edges adjacent its butt convexedlycurved portions, a blade-clamp having a threaded shank and an eye to receive the butt of the blade at the convexedly-curved portions, and a handle having a nut and a loosely-sustained blade-seat, the convexedlycurved portions of the blade permitting said blade to be adjusted into different angular positions relative to the handle.

2. An implement of the class described comprising a blade presenting adjacent its butt on its top edge a convex surface terminating in shoulders and at its bottom edge a convex surface provided with a plurality of shoulders, a blade-clamp embracing said blade and engaging the convex surface at the top edge of the blade, and a handle having a blade-seat to engage the convex surface at the lower edge of the blade, the construction being such that the blade may be adjusted into different angular positions with relation to the handle.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BENJAMIN F. BEAN.

\Vitnesses:

STANTON OWEN, WV. D. VEAZEY. 

